British restaurateur and reality show star chef Gordon Ramsey has another season of nightmares ahead of him. Despite being in the only interesting time slot on Wednesdays - between Bionic Woman and Private Practice, as well as an aging Criminal Minds - Fox’s US version of Ramsey’s Kitchen Nightmares has increased its ratings share every week it has aired so far.
The show centers around Ramsey helping restaurant owners transform their once-great business back to their former glory after falling into a state of health-code-violating catastrophes. It’s like a Food Network program on steroids.
With its solid ratings performance, Kitchen Nightmares on Fox earned one of the earliest renewals of the infant new season; 10 more episodes for a second season were ordered this week by Fox. Ramsey is currently busy filming the next season of Hell’s Kitchen, his other Fox ratings-grabber.
As well as things are going for chef Ramsey on television, it’s a wonder he has time to still be a chef and run his restaurants, although he can definitely afford Girard Perregaux wristwatches.
No word on scheduling yet. But not renewing the well-performing show would have been the idiocy on this one. Fortunately, Fox doesn’t ALWAYS cancel EVERY good series.
Just most of them.
